Pickup vs. sorority house gets national attention

¢ The pickup that slammed into the Kansas University Chi Omega sorority house over the weekend got a mention on the Web site of U.S. News & World Report¢ A KU professor who previously founded a Web project, Conabio, that listed all 70,000 animal species in Mexico is quoted in a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation story about the Encyclopedia of Life, which will attempt to list and describe all 1.8 million known species in the world._”They are going to do something extremely ambitious and important,” said Conabio’s founding director, Jorge Soberon, now a professor at the University of Kansas._¢ A KU graduate has been named chancellor at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, according to a TV report in Omaha. John E. Christensen received his Ph.D. in speech-language pathology fromm KU.